Article 2HC3P Farmers in Canada are also reduced to secretly fixing their tractors, thanks to DRM

Farmers in Canada are also reduced to secretly fixing their tractors, thanks to DRM

by
Cory Doctorow
from on (#2HC3P)

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In 2011, the Canadian Conservative government rammed through Bill C-11, Canada's answer to the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act, in which the property rights of Canadians were gutted in order to ensure that corporations could use DRM to control how they used their property -- like its US cousin, the Canadian law banned breaking DRM, even for legitimate purposes, like effecting repairs or using third party parts. (more")

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